title: Basis and implications of the CAP88 age-specific dose coefficients.
abstract: Recent versions of CAP88 incorporate age-specific dose coefficients based on biokinetic and dosimetric models applied in Federal Guidance Report 13, "Cancer Risk Coefficients for Environmental Exposure to Radionuclides." With a few exceptions the models are those recommended in a series of reports by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) on estimation of doses to the public from environmental radionuclides. This paper describes the basis for the ICRP's age-specific biokinetic and dosimetric models and examines differences with age in dose coefficients derived from those models.
authors.affiliation: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Leggett
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Scofield
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Eckerman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000032:analysis*; D000818:Animals; D001822:Body Burden; D002648:Child; D004285:Dogs; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D041981:Gastrointestinal Tract / Q000528:radiation effects; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D011868:Radioisotopes / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000032:analysis; D012137:Respiratory System / Q000528:radiation effects; D012984:Software / Q000592:standards
chemical_list: D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive; D011868:Radioisotopes